parry



(No Model.)

D. M. & T. H. PARRY.

VEHIGLE SHAPTS.

110.415.732. Pat ented Nov. 26, 1889.

1.1155555: Iqv 51 E 13 E- 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID M. PARRY AND THOMAS H. PARRY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

VEHICLE-SHAFT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,732, dated November 26, 1889'.

- Application filed August 8, 1889. Serial No. 320,156. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DAVID M. PARRY and THOMAS II. PARRY, citizens of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Shafts; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in vehicle-shafts and in the art of making the same, the object of the invention being to produce a shaft which shall be cheap, durable, and ornamental, and which shall be provided with a tip that is not liable to become loose and knocked off, and which will obviate the rattling so common to shaft-tips of ordinary construction.

The invention consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of parts of the said shaft and in certain improvements in the art of making said shaft, substantially as hereinafter described, and set forth in the claim. 7

Figure 1 represents in side elevation a portion of a shaft embodying our improvements; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3, a cross-section on dotted line a; m, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a sectional detail showing a modification.

In the drawings, A represents the vehicleshaft, a portion only of Which is shown. Formed at a short distance from both forward ends of the shaft is a shallow groove B, which extends entirely around the same. Into this groove B will preferably be fixed a metallic strip C, which strip takes the place of the usual cone-shaped tip, and will be secured in the groove B, as shown in the drawings, in such manner that it cannot be readily displaced, its edges coming flush with the periphery of the shaft.

In practice we have found this construction highly advantageous, as it forms a ver ornamental tip, which is cheap and will not rattle or become displaced.

Instead of securing a metallic strip in the groove B, said groove may be painted in gold or silver, if desired.

The manufacture of the shaft is as follows: The shaft after its main body is-finished will have. its ends tapered and rounded off. The

groove B will then be cut therein, after which the Whole shaft is painted the desired color, and the groove B will then be ornamented by a strip of metal or painted in imitation of metal.

IVe claim- The shaft A, having its ends rounded and having the groove B, semicircular in cross section, formed entirely around the shaft near each end, in combination with the metal strip 0, which is also semicircular in cross-section, fixed in said groove with its side edges flush with orbelow the periphery of the shaft, substantially as described.

-In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

DAVID M. PARRY, THOMAS II. PARRY. 

